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Evolve Game Informer Details
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Lord of Castamere
Member
For those wondering this game will have some sort of SP component.
It will probably be equal L4D's SP offerings.
http://www.computerandvideogames.co...rge-large-open-environments-dynamic-wildlife/
It will probably be equal L4D's SP offerings.
http://www.computerandvideogames.co...rge-large-open-environments-dynamic-wildlife/
MilesWebber
Member
Yeah like 8 years ago or whatever. There are freemium games more fun with more content than L4D nowadays. Dead trigger, anyone???
Edit: remember Zombies which is was a throwaway mode of COD is essentially F2P if you have the black ops game. So full price for this game is just stupid.
Permanently A
Junior Member
Hoping for a less powerful swamp monster that can summon swamp minions to distract the hunters
anexanhume
Member
It's not online only. You can play as a single person on the team of 4 or as the monster.
Yeah once I installed that water slide at my home pool I've never gone to a water park since.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I hope this ends up being as cool as it sounds. Can't wait to see gameplay!
ReDelicious
Member
Wasn't interested in this at all before but may have to keep my eye on it now.
MilesWebber
Member
Seriously. Why buy McDonald's when steak is free?
TheWorthyEdge
Member
Just a question about GAF in general. I'm a Junior Member but I can't post threads. It says he's a Junior Member. I'm just curious! 
Evolve looks/sounds terrific!
Evolve looks/sounds terrific!
Graphics Horse
Member
Just a question about GAF in general. I'm a Junior Member but I can't post threads. It says he's a Junior Member. I'm just curious!
Evolve looks/sounds terrific!
A mod split it off from the old thread. (see second post)
TheWorthyEdge
Member
:-/ I'm sorry, I'm new! What does Copy Bump mean? I'm sorry for the irrelevant questions.
anexanhume
Member
Because the steak is actually steak ums and I'm out of toilet paper.
Lord of Castamere
Member
Jaded as fuck.
Maybe I want a new game with new graphics and 30 foot tall monsters.
That's why I bought a Ps4. If I wanted to play CoD forever I would have stayed on Xbox.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
You can ask questions, lol. It's okay. You gotta learn this stuff somehow.
Graphics Horse
Member
Not sure why they do that, they might have to post a reply to make it appear on the first page.
anexanhume
Member
Likely. When they merge threads the original post time is preserved so you get all sorts of weird context/continuity issues.
TheWorthyEdge
Member
Thank you! I was just asking because I was looking around and there was no Outrise thread and I was going to make a thread about it.
Anyways, Evolve sounds awesome!
fuzzyreactor
Banned
I do. Give me more game developers, give me more
Always-honest
Banned
Dman, i hope there will be a demo. Cause if it's as fun as it sounds... i might have to buy it.
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
Only 4 players? Pre-order cancelled!
I love what they are trying to do with this game. Hopefully they pull it off!
I love what they are trying to do with this game. Hopefully they pull it off!
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
A demo is a really good idea. A lot of people aren't familiar with games like this, and a demo could really push sales.
Lord of Castamere
Member
That's a good question, but until we get some gameplay/screenshots I don't think it will be answered.
infiniteheteroskdasticity
Member
I'm not really much into multiplayer games but this sounds super cool. Definitely sounds like being the monster is going to be a lot of Fun.
Willy Wanka
my god this avatar owns
This definitely sounds cool. I'm looking forward to seeing some footage, especially of the fully evolved monster.
Your tag is appropriate.
Don't think the games don't have content. L4D came out 5 years ago, L4D2 came out 4 years ago. Both all sold very well, the second still does. L4D2 itself has a crapton of free mods, has many different game modes including one that used to change every week, it has like over 10 campaigns that can be played on these multiple game modes, and it has many different zombies to play as.
Even L4D1 with 4 campaigns and only 4 playable infected, I had over 300 hours of gameplay in that game in just a few months. Every time you play it is different.
They more than have the right to charge full price for their game. It's a game. They haven't even revealed most of the content of the game yet.
dev have a video to talk about Evolved. Sounds more interesting to me now.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/01/08/what-is-evolve.aspx
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/01/08/what-is-evolve.aspx
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
I want both!
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
This.
Also this game looks fantastic. L4D is a great series as well, excited what they do with a game dedicated to next gen hardware on Cryengine 3.
Looks like a winner.
I think it sounds interesting, but also very different from the dynamics of L4D. In L4D, the stage is usually more fun for the survivors because they're playing through the level, while the fun for the infected is in finding ways to really set up things which fuck their progress up with cool powers.
With Evolve, from what is described it sounds like the complete opposite. The hunters will be the ones who are trying to stop the solo monster player from "completing" the stage. This means there's no active stage for the human players to actually "complete", instead they are literally hunting for a player who is trying to do so (and it sounds like it could be in a totally non-linear way since it's more about eating wildlife, hiding, evolving, and then completing the final objective).
As such, on paper right now it sounds MUCH more fun to play as the monster than as the human players since you get both the benefit of playing as the unusual character with lots of more interesting abilities, as well as the one playing through an objective driven stage, while the other players have to try to hunt you and shoot you.
One way I can see this really working is if there's a "tournament" mode of sorts were 5 players play a total of 5 rounds, with a different player as the monster in each round, and the winner would be the one who manages to survive the longest and/or with the most points.
With Evolve, from what is described it sounds like the complete opposite. The hunters will be the ones who are trying to stop the solo monster player from "completing" the stage. This means there's no active stage for the human players to actually "complete", instead they are literally hunting for a player who is trying to do so (and it sounds like it could be in a totally non-linear way since it's more about eating wildlife, hiding, evolving, and then completing the final objective).
As such, on paper right now it sounds MUCH more fun to play as the monster than as the human players since you get both the benefit of playing as the unusual character with lots of more interesting abilities, as well as the one playing through an objective driven stage, while the other players have to try to hunt you and shoot you.
One way I can see this really working is if there's a "tournament" mode of sorts were 5 players play a total of 5 rounds, with a different player as the monster in each round, and the winner would be the one who manages to survive the longest and/or with the most points.
Riposte
Member
This is how it was done in Resident Evil 6's Predator mode, where a group of players took turns playing a boss character against the others pretty much. This dynamic is pretty interesting, because it leads to a sort of passive-aggressive style of play. You need your allies if you want to stop the current monster from getting too many points, but you also don't want them to do better than you as hunters (like you may want them to lose points by dying, if that's the case). Also, watching them as hunters informs you how to play as a monster.
Oh I was thinking of the scoring mechanic being tied to the monster only. I think that would balance it out because there would be zero reason to backstab any teammates when playing as a hunter, since everyone would want to stop that player as quickly as possible.
Yea makes me think of those warcraft3/star craft 2 mods where you make your beast evolve by eating other criters.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
No dedicated sprint button (like l4d).